Imagine Healing and Awakening

Spider’s Web

Kathy Bornino — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:32:51 +0000

Do you sometimes find yourself feeling alone, separate, disconnected from others? Lots of folks in our modern world find themselves without friends or family close by. A stroll through nature can help us, if w focus on the life energy in the trees, plants, birds and any animals we see. They mirror back to us the life force that is flowing through us, also. Eckhart Tolle teaches how much healing and peace there is in feeling the Presence of your own spirit, your essence.
The spider can teach us a wonderful lesson about shared Spirit. Seen from the right angle, a spider web will glisten if it is moist – particularly at each nexus where the strands are knit together. The silken strands of a spider’s web are among the strongest forces in nature, for the width of a single strand. Yet the strands can seem to disappear from various angles. So can our sense of connectedness disappear, even though we are actually quite bound together in the web of life. We intuitively know there is something magical in the glistening points of connection in the spider’s web, reflecting back to us and reassuring us of our connection with others. Uplifted by that validation in life’s mirror, we can pick up the phone and make that connecting call we haven’t gotten around to, or take a walk to the corner grocery and let ourselves really experience the other human being behind the counter.

Life Springs Up in Chile

Kathy Bornino — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:00:26 +0000

It is spring time in Chile, and we see the miners pop up like shoots of grass after a spring rain. Life is renewed for them, and in some deep felt way, for us also as we welcome them to the surface, and up into the pure air.
Something inside our human hearts has been trapped underground, probing its way through our collective unconscious, and is now released to emerge into our awareness. Human ingenuity has wrestled with fate, and Life has claimed victory. What a powerful vision is unfolding before us.
Of the many deeply buried dilemmas that face our human family – in Israel, in Korea, in our monetary systems, in cancer and diabetes epidemics, in the Congo and Sudan – in all the many layered problems that beset us – here in Chile is one in which mind and heart, technology and cooperation have come together to give rise to renewed life, against the odds. Let us honor this vision with a profound “YES” that refocuses our intentions and attention on visioning solutions to whatever problems most call to us.
Imagine the collective power of many minds and hearts uniting in this way!

When you can’t see an image…use Color Part 1

Kathy Bornino — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:52:05 +0000

Sometimes we have a situation in which we are not sure what the best outcome would look like, or what steps lie ahead along the road to get there. We can still ask ourselves a basic question: In my need right now, what color would feel good to me? This is different from your favorite color to look at, or the color you like to wear, or other favorites. Asking your intuitive “hunch” sense to suggest to you a needed color is a way of tuning yourself to the energies involved in a situation, especially the energy that is missing and needed to bring balance and harmony. Exciting new developments in the field of energy medicine are bringing positive results, where physical and emotional diseases are treated by low voltage, specific frequencies directed at specific organs or the entire body. Breathing in a color is a way to tune into and absorb the frequency of that color, which may shift your feeling state and bring a useful image or insight into your situation.
For example, suppose you are nervous about asking your boss for a raise or some compensation or even a schedule change. Perhaps you try seeing your boss smile and say yes, but you have a hard time imagining that or holding that image. You could ask your intuition what color you need, and perhaps get a sense that red would be helpful. As you breathe in red, you can feel yourself filling up with its vibration, its frequency of light, that affects your chi – your subtle body energy – as well as your feelings, which in turn has an effect on your thoughts and your sense of well being and capability. In turn, you are more able to present a positive case, adapting to your situation, and more likely to bring about a positive outcome. Or, perhaps your intuition suggests the color orange to you, and you see that color or look at an orange object to focus on breathing in the frequencies of orange, and they balance and energize your system, to the same positive effect.
This is the first of a series of posts that will explore qualities frequently associated with various colors of the rainbow. However, like dream images, the effects of colors are also specific to individuals. We are complex energy systems and the color we think we need by looking at a description of color qualities may not actually be the most beneficial color for us. Our clear intuition can take a more accurate reading of what we need. That is the value of developing good communication with our intuition, by paying attention to “hunches”.

Go for the Peak

HealingTraveler — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:45:06 +0000

Three U.S. veterans have conquered Mt. Kilimanjaro – with only one good leg among them. The image of them at the top of the mountain can inspire our hearts with their courage, perseverance, and power of positive intention. Two men each lost both their legs: Dan Nevins, 39, in Iraq, and Neil Duncan, 26, in Afghanistan. Kirk Bauer, 62, lost one leg in Vietnam, in 1969. All use prosthesis. They hiked to the top of Africa’s highest peak, at 19,330, to show that disability need not lead to inactivity. According to Bauer: “If we can climb Kilimanjaro, our other disabled friends can get out and go hiking or go biking or swim a mile, can get out and lead a healthy life.”(quoted in The Week magazine, August 27. Pg 2)
Those of us with two good legs can not only get out and gratefully exercise more, but we can take in and reflect on the power of the image these guys looked to: they saw themselves on top of that mountain, kept that goal in view, and did not let a multitude of obstacles deter them from their path. Whatever goal we want to accomplish, we can follow their example. And share the power of intention and imaging with everyone who will listen.

MR TOAD’S WILD RIDE

HealingTraveler — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:27:19 +0000

I’m back, after my focus has been on a difficult family situation, followed by the joy of having all my 5 grandchildren (ages 4-10) for a week!
Are you going through a complex stressful time? You could try this image, that I have been using for myself and others: Remember Mister Toad’s Wild Ride, with its sudden stops and sharp unexpected turns? (The Disneyland version really caught the spirit). I have been visualizing myself as the passenger as fate or other people drive the car. I keep my headlights on (higher thoughts) and look ahead, open to all possibilities.I imagine a GPS in the heart of the driver, programmed to guide the driver to his heart’s desire. Over many bumpy roads, with unexpected twists and turns, this is gradually working! We do best when our visualizations are also in sync with Universal Time, otherwise known as divine timing.

Have you used a visualization you found worked for you? Please share it! Check out more ideas for helpful imaging at http://imaginehealingandawakening.com

Green Dance of Life – Imbibe the Energy!

HealingTraveler — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:59:02 +0000

Summer is in full motion, and in my garden that means the bushes are thrusting branches higher everywhere. As I wrestle with pruning and weeding, I am aware of how much life force is all around me, repeating its growth surges, insistent that it will not be held back. I could make this a struggle, but I feel it as an invitation to dance with Nature, to embrace and re-direct powerful life forces. This way the life energy lifts me, carries me through my pruning and weeding with energy and enthusiasm. The Nature Spirits and sprites are alive and well, playing around me and through me. I dance at the wedding of sun and earth, high with green energy flowing through my veins (remembering how close are the molecular structures of chlorophyl and blood – hemoglobin).

We are truly blessed to be invited into the wild, sacred dance of Life.

Stars and Stripes

Kathy Bornino — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:05:46 +0000

When you see our flag, can you see stars twinkling in a night blue sky? Do they beckon you to expand your spirit, to think large, breathe deeply and reach up to the stars?
When you see the red and white stripes, do they feel like bars, stopping you with the colors of the stop sign?

This opposition, between reaching forward and being or feeling held back, is at the base of the rhythm of life. We want to accomplish something, develop a skill or a relationship, but we meet obstacles. Some we feel we can wrestle with and grow from. Some derail us for awhile – they seem to bar the way, like the stripes on the flag.
This is also the situation astrologically in the sky right now, with the opposition between Uranus, that impels us toward freedom, and Saturn, that represents rigid structures that don’t want to bend. This is an especially powerful opposition this month because Jupiter stands at the side of Uranus, reinforcing its push for change, and Mars and Venus stand at the side of Saturn, reinforcing structural resistance. All of these planets are square Pluto, the energy of transformation. And the sun and moon as they pass through Cancer this month will also be square the Uranus Jupiter conjunction and the Mars Venus Saturn conjunction, making for a grand cross – a rare and enormous amount of energy pressing us to replace old patterns with healthier, more functional behaviors – to use our freedom to recreate better structures.
We can see such tension straining individuals, communities, families, companies, whole countries – and even the ecosystem, in the oil rig that blew apart and the oil that refuses to be contained, and the dilemmas of our responses, as a country, as people whose livelihood depends on a healthy gulf, and as oil consumers.
What can we do with such tension between opposing forces in our lives?
Psychologist Carl Jung described maturity as the capacity to hold the tension of the opposites. Not to get pulled out of balance in either direction is a feat of self control, ability to maintain perspective and keep one’s cool. It requires faith in the cycles of life, that what is an immovable obstacle today may be resolved over time, and that what is currently experienced as irreconcilable differences will in fact resolve over time, if we look closely at whatever adjustments we need to make and take appropriate action.
How fortunate that our national flag holds such a valuable message for us, and the energies of growth and stability are so well balanced in this image!

Chi Gung: Help for living well thru tense times

HealingTraveler — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:01:10 +0000

In my last post I mentioned the planetary forces pulling us in opposite directions in the late spring and summer of 2010, Uranus urging change amidst upheavals in traditional structures and the earth itself, and Saturn energizing resistance to change. If you are one of many folks feeling pulled in opposite directions, learning to use simple chi gung exercises can be an immense help.

Chi exercises can be as simple as holding your hands outstretched, palms upward, drawing in the electric energy from the sky, then turning your palms downward to draw in the magnetic energy of the earth. You can raise your hands above your head, palms downward, to direct the balanced electromagnetic energy downward through your body. You can also extend your palms outward in front of you, slowly pulling energy toward you and then pressing it from you. This is a way to harmonize your energy, balancing yin (inward) with yang (outward) energy. Harmonizing our subtle body energy in this way can help tune our minds and hearts to harmonize the pulls from competing interests in our lives: “As within, so without: as without, so within” is a variation on the classical hermetic law of “As above, so below”. Usually, external conflicting forces in our lives have a parallel within us. For example, balancing the demands of home and work, both external, can be aided by balancing the outward, achievement oriented, active and assertive part of us with the inward, yielding, nurturing energy within us.

Creating Peace Within

HealingTraveler — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:05:13 +0000

Do you find your life particularly challenging lately? A powerful opposition in our sky, between Saturn (structure) and Uranus (change, upheaval) is bringing crises into many lives, through this spring and summer.

An image I am using personally to help myself and my family through a difficult obstacle course is visualizing moonbeams shining down through the night, illuminating a path through a minefield, leading to a peaceful valley.

Here is a great resource to help you:

“Join the Global Coherence Initiative Steering Committee member, Deborah Rozman, Ph.D. and Institute of HeartMath Education Program Developer, Jeffrey Goelitz, M.Ed. for this timely Webinar: Finding the State of Ease to Create Flow set for 11 a.m. – 12 noon and 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. PDT Wednesday, June 30.

In this Webinar Deborah and Jeffrey will talk about how people are commenting on how they are overloaded with too much to do and anxiety about the future. There is a “state of ease” that each of us can access to help release emotional turbulence and help maintain coherent alignment between our heart, mind and emotions. Learning to access our personal space of “inner-ease” can be done with minimum practice and in just a little time. When operating in an ease-mode, it’s easier to choose less stressful perceptions and attitudes and re-create “flow” in our daily routines”www.glcoherence.org

Get lots more resources to help in my book, Armchair Travel to Heal the Planet

Wellness 4 Heart Wisdom

HealingTraveler — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:13:19 +0000

      Do you ever find yourself caught up in anxious thoughts? resentments? grudges, jealousy, criticisms of yourself or others, rehashing of bits of conversation?
      HeartMath is a wonderful tool for staying in or returning to a positive space, and bringing in your heart’s wisdom to guide you through any situation.
      Call to mind a memory image that inspires gratitude or inspiration in you. This could be as simple as a sunset or beautiful flower, and it might be a tactile rather than visual image, such as petting your dog or cat. Give your attention to that image for a few minutes, breathing with it and opening yourself to the positive feelings it brings back to you.
     AFTER you feel yourself calm down, ask your heart to give you a wise, helpful way to look at whatever situation may have troubled you. Often a new and/or positive view of the situation will come into your thoughts. This is a gift to you from your heart. Honor it by using it, and your heart will respond by giving you more positive guidance on future occasions.

Used regularly, HeartMath reduces anxiety and depression. It’s free, needs no Doctor Rx, & has no bad side effects!